UB Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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The UB Electronic Theses and Dissertations collection accepts theses and dissertations from all graduate programs at the University of Baltimore. Beginning in 2017, all graduate students are required to submit an electronic copy of their thesis or dissertation to this collection. Submissions prior to 2017 were at either the behest of an individual program or at the student's discretion.
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Recent Submissions
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Effect of Low Literacy on Password Formation Strategy as Impediment to Participation in Modern Life: Evaluation and Intervention Tutorial
(2019)Despite widespread acknowledgement that they are an imperfect compromise, text passwords remain the most common method of authenticating user access to digital resources. Responsible stewardship of those resources, both ... -
Remote Collaborative Presentations; A Tool to Bridge the Gap
(2019-07-15)With the rise of online education and remote professional work, it is important that tools be developed that facilitate efficient team collaboration among remote team members. In this research, the researcher designed a ... -
GirlsTeam: What if Kim Kardashian was a STEM role model?
(2019-06-22)The purpose of this paper is to examine the lack of interest young women have in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) degrees and careers. The numbers of available STEM jobs are increasing, but there is a lack ... -
Agency Theory: An Examination of the Intra-Organizational Relationships within the Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Embedded Chief Financial Officers in the Context of the Chief Financial Act of 1990
(2019-04)This research study seeks to explain the intra-organizational relationship phenomenon of goal conflict that may exist between the Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG), Department of Defense Chief Financial ... -
Examining field usability testing outcomes conducted on virtual and physical mobile devices using wearable eye tracking
(2019-06-17)There is a growing need to conduct usability testing with smartphones and tablets as adoption of these devices continues to increase. Virtual device testing is a popular approach due to the diversity of devices and operating ... -
Harnessing the Internet to Meet their Needs: Can Adapting to the Digital Age Help Close the Literacy Gap?
(2019-05)Research was conducted with 10 low literate and 10 medium to high literate students at the University of Baltimore to understand how traditional literacy impacts search habits for new college freshman. Five low literate, ... -
The Augmented Shopping Experience with Intuitive Intelligence and Machine Learning
(2019-05-30)Computer algorithms are increasingly being used to predict people's preferences and make recommendations. Data is being collected like never before, through advancing technologies and enhanced data scraping techniques. ... -
Choice Overload and the Senior Population; Guidelines for a Designer.
(2019-05)Much research has been conducted and published regarding choice behavior and the concept that less is more. Too many choices can cause cognitive overload for users, lead to choice paralysis, and negative emotions. Past ... -
A UNITED STATE: Moderation. Diversity. Reciprocity. Equality. Designing mobile technology to support productive online political discourse.
(2019-05)I have endeavored upon this thesis work in an attempt to find design solutions to the pressing societal problems of ever-increasing political polarization coupled with widespread dissatisfaction with social media’s effect ... -
The Relationship Between Public Transportation and HSPD-5: Are Public Transportation Agencies the Forgotten Element in NIMS
(2018-11-12)ABSTRACT The tragic events that transpired on September 11, 2001 (9/11), resulted in a myriad of changes within the United States that reshaped government agencies and created the Department of Homeland Security (Russell, ... -
A Conceptual Application of Bakhtin’s Dialogic Discourse to Information and Interaction Design of Social Media
(2018-12)Background and Purpose: This research explores how humanities – Bakhtin’s dialogical discourse – offer new insights into information and interaction design providing interdisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical ... -
Crowdsourced Alternative Healthcare: Mobile Applications for User-Generated Natural Remedies
(2018-12)Smartphone applications have the ability to improve population health, mostly because of their widespread use; their rapid technological advancements and updates; and their use of features such as geolocation, video and ... -
Ensuring data integrity and user retention within BANDIT
(2018)Data collection is a vital service completed by the government to help ensure accuracy on a range of issues. Currently the Bird Banding Lab (BBL) is tasked with the collection of bird migratory data across North America. ... -
Integrating Machine Learning into the UX Design Process
(2018-12)The following paper discusses how machine learning is becoming the new user experience tool for designers. Throughout the last decade, machine learning has vastly improved the user experience and human-machine interfacing ... -
Use of Assistive Technology for Cognition Mobile Applications by Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Chemotherapy
(2018-12)Difficulty thinking, remembering, and concentrating are common complaints among breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy; however, tools and support for coping with these impairments remain limited. A previously ... -
Toward a Framework for Detecting Empathy in Public Sector Organizations
(2018-04-30)Public organizations fulfill critical needs in communities across the United States, such as housing, environmental protection, public education, and more. In this important role, healthy public organizations should be ... -
The Impact of Varying Leader Culture Types on Organizational Change Initiatives
(2018-05-05)The nature of homeostatic organizations makes change difficult, yet organizations promote change to meet new visions, new goals and to address organizational deficiencies. Commonly used change management tools, known in ... -
The Moderating Effects of Healthy Value Congruence on the Role Stressor-Strain Relationship
(2018-08)This study examines the moderating effects of healthy value congruence on the relationship between role stressors (i.e., role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload) and outcome variables (i.e., burnout and turnover ... -
Productivity Strategies for Non-traditional Students
(2018-07-18)Becoming an adult involves taking on additional roles and responsibilities, and with these come the inevitable challenge of facing competing commitments. One extreme and common case of this is the returning student, and ... -
Low‐Literacy Search Behavior: Designing to Increase Information Retrieval and Successful Task Completion on Government Means‐Based Program Websites
(2018-07-17)The purpose of this observational study is to support existing research on low-literacy user interactions and behaviors, and to observe how low-literacy users interact with and perceive means-based government program ...
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